Night Flight

Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.

Night Flight is a variety show that originated on the USA Network. An eclectic mix of short films, cartoons, B movies, stand up comedy, documentaries, music videos and more, Night Flight was broadcast, in various incarnations, from 1981 to 1996.

Night Flight was a powerful drama set in 1943 and the present telling the story of two World War II veterans. Harry Peters piloted a Lancaster bomber at just 20. His now middle-class world is thrown into disarray when former comrade Vic Green lands. A tale of secrets, scandal and corruption based on ghosts as yet not laid to rest.

Yong-ju, Gi-woong and Gi-taek used to be best friends in middle school, but in high school, Gi-woong becomes a member of the gang that bullies Gi-taek. As Yong-ju tries to fix this broken relationship, he realizes his special feeling toward Gi-woong.

A pilot navigates a storm. Inspired by the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Shot on an iPhone XS.

Late night IFC Network program that showed B-movies, rock videos, and offbeat shorts.

Abstract animation set to music.

At the end of the Edo Period, there was a legendary chivalrous thief who stole from rich merchants and self-serving samurai and gave to the virtuous people of the town. His name was Nezumi-kozo (Rat Boy) Jirokichi. This musical is about how he competed with and was friends with the hero of so many period dramas (Touyama Kinshiro), and about the loves they surrounded themselves with in the new and progressive Japan. A Takarazuka take on the tale of Nezumi-kozo.

Frank Zappa stopped by the Night Flight studios in 1985 to talk about music videos, censorship, the PMRC and what it's like to play in his band.

Based on the play Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello. Conrad Veidt plays Count di Nolli, a nobleman who, after a head injury, imagines he is the medieval emperor. His friends and relatives choose to play along, dressing up as medieval courtiers, but is di Nolli truly mad, or just pretending? The art direction was by Hermann Warm. It was shot on location in Italy. 6 acts, 1856 meters.

UQAM. The University of Quebec in Montreal. The « New » university. Birthplace of the quebec student movements of 2012 and 2015. The time of a truce, the time of a night, words shall awaken the sleeping scenery. A poetic meditation on the identity of UQAM, between fervor, activism, repression, indifference and disillusion.

Waymas works in a subway repair worshop in Mexico City, while Tony sells chicken in a marketplace in Guadalajara. Both were part of the September 23rd Communist League, the larger urban guerrilla group in Mexico during the 1970s. On January the 22nd of 1976, both escaped prison through an elaborated military plan. They recount how they escaped and why they were fighting for then and now.

Flug durch die Nacht, shot during Ilona Baltrusch's studies at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin - DFFB, explores the relationship between language and image. The film follows the two protagonists, Gretel Kemeny and Martin Peter, through 1980s nocturnal Berlin.

During Iran-Iraq war a group of Iranian soldiers are surrounded by Iraqi army. Four soldiers are chose to go get help but only one manages to make it through enemy lines.

A quirky live performance feature featuring New Zealand folk-parody duo Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie, who earned raves at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Melbourne Comedy Festival and who won the Bass Ale Award for Best Alternative Act at the 2005 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival.

Documentary tribute to what VH1 called “the single greatest rock omnibus program ever aired” and Brooklyn Vegan named “the most consistently weird and awesome thing on cable television in the ’80s.” This ‘Best Of’ episode features some of the most memorable moments of Night Flight's near-decade long run including restored interviews and segments from Kate Bush, New Wave Theatre, David Lynch, Prince, Wendy O Williams, Divine, Billy Idol, Johnny Rotten, and much more Night Flight treasures from the archive.

British TV-movie, starring Trevor Howard and Bo Svensson

Swedish melodic rock supergroup The Night Flight Orchestra, recorded live at The Tivoli, Helsingborg, Sweden, on 18th April 2020. Tracklist: Servants of the Air / Divinyls / Living for the Nighttime / This Boy's Last Summer / If Tonight Is Our Only Chance / Something Mysterious / Gemini / Golden Swansdown / Paralyzed / Can't Be That Bad / Transmissions / Satellite / West Ruth Ave